Activist website Indymedia shuts down after police raid

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The Bristol site is “now officially closed for good” following the police raidMikkel William Nielsen

Jules Mattsson and Alannah Francis

Last updated at 5:48PM, August 28 2014

Police accessed servers belonging to the Bristol branch of activist news
website Indymedia in a move that later ‘forced organisers to close it down’.
The raid is believed to be the latest effort in the long pursuit of the
“Bristol unabomber”.

Officers have been trying to locate those responsible for a series of attacks
in the city — including a fire in a new police firearms training centre that
took a fortnight to extinguish — for more than a year.

A copy of the production order, marked restricted but seen by The Times,
authorises officers to seize “special procedure” journalistic material. It